When it comes to upgrade HP c7000 enclosure components with VMware ESX or ESXi blade servers inside – It is a drama and pain :-/ – to find a documentation, firmware compatibility matrix, finally the right version of software and user guides – in addition HP site work like crap. The slowest vendor site I’ve ever seen. Anyway, after few hours finally I figure out how to do full online upgrade in HP c7000 enclosure...

If you are looking around for alternative storage solution which can compete with big iron providers such as IBM EMC NetApp HitachiDS or how to build a Cloud solution using commercial and opensource components -  you should watch webinar lead by @Marek Lubinski – Senior Engineer @LeaseWEB. Marek presented Cloud solution build on: Nexenta storage HA clusters Supermicro NFS heads Apache Cloudstack as a cloud framework KVM and vSphere...

To complete upgrade to vSphere 5.1 you need to complete few more steps, depends on design some of the can be skipped. Recommended: Upgrading VMware Tools Upgrade the Virtual Hardware for Virtual Machines Back Up the vCenter Single Sign On Configuration Upgrade datastore files system from VMFS3 to VMFS5 Upgrade VMware tools before upgrade of the Virtual Machine Hardware Optional: Install or Upgrade vSphere ESXi Dump Collector Install or...

Before you start   Upgrading vSphere Web Client to version 5.1 requires Single Sign-ON server instance in version 5.1 Step # 6 Upgrading vSphere Web client in vSphere 5.1 Mount vSphere 5.1 installation package, mark on VMware vSphere WEB client and click on install button Choose language version Instillation wizard detects earlier version, click Next to continue Agree on license agreement Specify WEB client port settings, default ports for...

Few days ago I had discussion with one of my colleagues about possibility to migrate VM’s between vSphere clusters. I was trying to persuade him that is possible and I did that operation hundreds times, unfortunately unsuccessfully. I decided to write blog article to resolve all doubts. Yes, you can migrate VM’s between vSphere clusters (even between different versions) as long as below conditions are met: vSphere clusters must...

From time to time topic about MSCS and vCenter server comeback in community discussion and in projects which I’m working on. There is a lot of misunderstanding around it so I would like to clarify here few things. Officially vCenter server it is NOT supported on third-party solution such as, Microsoft Cluster Services, Veritas Cluster Solution and others. You may choose to protect VMware vCenter Server using third-party clustering...